Helpful Links

What Is Speech? What Is Language?

  Learn the difference between speech and language.

How Does Your Child Hear and Talk?

  Charts of speech, language, and hearing milestones from birth to 5. Includes tips for parents.

Communication Development: Kindergarten–5th grade

  What to expect from children in elementary school.

Reading and Writing (Literacy)

  Learn about how reading and writing develops.

Social Language Use (Pragmatics)

  Learn about social communication and interacting with others.

Learning More Than One Language

  What to expect when learning more than one language.

Late Blooming or Language Problem: Information for Parents

  Learn the difference between a language delay and a language problem.

Games that facilitate language development

• Go Fish
• Headbandz
• Tapple
• Word-A-Round
• Apples to Apples
• I Spy
• Zingo
• Tribond
• Pictionary
• Charades
• Guess Who?
• Guess What I Am?
• Twenty Questions